KROTCH Mag Emission 20 was released into the back streets of the Independent Republic of Žizkov on February 1st, 2026. The 20th issue is a special edition featuring 24 pages (!) of discount writing by and for Žizkov and OBJECT:PARADISE’s wider community of rats & spats.

Since we began the project in June 2022, our goal has been to promote local writing on local topics to generate new perspectives on larger themes & questions -- what is poetry? what is art? and how can we get drunk for free? (these are all the same questions).

And since beginning the project, we’ve also learned a lot. For example, asking people to submit us "bad" writing is, in principle, the same as asking someone to send us "good" writing -- each qualification is subjective and dependent on past experiences that build expectations.

We also learned that the community writers for KMAG often don't need explanations because they understand, somehow, what these unspoken conventions are--even when we don't know ourselves. And, perhaps, this is the beauty about community works; you create your own notions of "good" and "bad" by collective shared experiences. 

However micro, however local.

Perhaps this is all we will have left in the age of global mass media where conventions and expectations are mass-maintained through algorithmic gatekeeping and the institutionalization of “expression.” 

We want to give a huge thank you to all who have contributed to KROTCH over the last twenty issues and to all of you who took the time to support K-MAG. You have helped us belong and find our belonging amongst the contorted culture of the 21st century. Long live the shitheads.

Featured in K20 are contributions from::::

Anna Maslenko

Jordan Lickel 

Lomikar

Rory Hinchey

Sasha Honigman

Sang Palsu

Snitch Kejhnul

Tekno Sag

Ugljesa Janjic

THANK GUYS.

GET INVOLVED AT KROTCH (@) OBJECTPARADISE.COM

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HANDLE KROTCH for 50kc thru your neighborhood dealer or pick up a copy at one of our four drop off & get off points in Prahahahaha: Zizkovsiska, The Globe Bookstore, L’object Trouve, or Mistecko. 

Learn more about the project at www.objectparadise.com/KROTCH

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